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Hands-On Game Development with WebAssembly

You're reading from   Hands-On Game Development with WebAssembly Learn WebAssembly C++ programming by building a retro space game

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838644659
Length 596 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to WebAssembly and Emscripten FREE CHAPTER 2. HTML5 and WebAssembly 3. Introduction to WebGL 4. Sprite Animations in WebAssembly with SDL 5. Keyboard Input 6. Game Objects and the Game Loop 7. Collision Detection 8. Basic Particle System 9. Improved Particle Systems 10. AI and Steering Behaviors 11. Designing a 2D Camera 12. Sound FX 13. Game Physics 14. UI and Mouse Input 15. Shaders and 2D Lighting 16. Debugging and Optimization 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Changes to games.hpp

There are a few additional changes we will need to make to our game.hpp file. In addition to our UIButton class, we will need to add a UISprite class definition file. The UISprite is just a plain, ordinary image drawn in canvas space. It will not have any functionality on top of just being a sprite rendered as a UI element. Here is what the definition looks like:

class UISprite {
public:
bool m_Active;
SDL_Texture *m_SpriteTexture;
SDL_Rect m_dest = {.x = 0, .y = 0, .w = 128, .h = 32 };
UISprite( int x, int y, char* file_name );
void RenderUI();
};

Like the button, it has an active state that's represented by the m_Active attribute. If this value is false, the sprite will not render. It also has a sprite texture and a destination attribute that tells the renderer what to draw and where to draw it:

SDL_Texture *m_SpriteTexture...
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